John Edwards Quotes

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Middle class prosperity—economics—depended on middle class power—politics.

This growing inequality … is not only morally wrong, it’s bad economics, because when middle class families have less to spend, guess what. Businesses have fewer consumers.

We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.

And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!

Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more jobs, better paying jobs - that's how you raise your standard of living. That's how you raise your quality of life. That's what funds all the other services people want from government.

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.